“Media Azi” Broadcast, 32nd edition: Transition to Digital Television – Who and Why Sabotages This Process?

This week, the “Media Azi” show returns to the topic of transition to digital television, the process that has been delayed for years in Moldova. Who and why sabotages transition to digital broadcasting? The answer to this question you can find from the discussion that journalist Nicolae Negru had with Alexandru Dorogan, a member of the Electronic Press Association.

Participants of the show explain what digital technologies are and why televisions from over one hundred countries of the world chose to transfer to digital broadcasting. Since our country is the only one in Europe that kept delaying digitalization, they wonder why the Government has not yet developed the policies and strategies needed for it.

In the opinion of the guest of the show, digitalization means access to a bigger amount of information for every citizen. For example, if at present Moldova can have only 3 or 4 televisions with national coverage, after transition to the new technology it could have 30 or 40 such televisions. Why isn’t our government interested in having an informed citizen? Watch the conclusions reached by the show’s protagonists during the discussion.

The last term that the Government set for final transition to digital television is December 31, 2017. In this context, participants of the show remind of the difficulties faced by TV channels during transition and of the risks that citizens are exposed to, as they will no longer be able to watch their favorite broadcasts after this term.

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“Media Azi” broadcast is weekly produced by the Independent Journalism Center. It is intended to disclose the problems faced at present by the journalists of the domestic media and to identify solutions to hem. The broadcast may be viewed on the websites www.moldova-azi.md,  Media Azi and Mediacritica, as well as on the Youtube channel of the Independent Journalism centre. 

The broadcast was produced with the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, provided by the means of the Embassy of Sweden in Chisinau.